A stable, correct understanding of some point in the Dharma, such as voidness, which brings about a lasting attainment and change in the person who has it. Compare: "attainment".

Tib: rtogs-pa

realization, subsequent

Verwirklichung, nachfolgende

See: subsequent attainment

realization and liberation, simultaneous

Verwirklichung und Befreiung, gleichzeitige

See: simultaneous realization and liberation

realize

verwirklichen / erkennen

To understand correctly, in a stable manner, some point in the Dharma, such as voidness, such that it brings about a lasting attainment and change in the person who has gained it.

realize voidness

Leerheit verwirklichen / Leerheit erkennen

To gain a stable, correct understanding of voidness, either conceptually or nonconceptually, such that it brings about a lasting attainment and change in the person who has it.

Tib: stong-nyid rtogs-pa

realms of existence, six

Existenzbereiche, sechs

See: six realms of existence

rebirth states, worse

Wiedergeburtszustände, schlechte

See: worse rebirth states

recitation practice

Rezitationspraxis

In tantra, the meditation practice with which one recites a ritual meditation text describing the self-visualization process and a complex series of further practices based on that self-generation, such as reciting mantras and making offerings.

Tib: kha-'don

recognition

Erkenntnis

The mental factor (subsidiary awareness) of distinguishing an object as being something specific, such as when studying the Dharma, oneself as being a sick person, one's spiritual teacher as being a doctor, and the Dharma as being medicine.

Tib: 'du-shesSkt: samjna

recognitions, three

Erkentnisse, drei

See: three recognitions

recurring existence

wiederkehrende Existenz

See: samsara

recurring samsara

sich wiederholendes Samsara

See: samsara

referent aim, without a

Ausrichtung auf ein Bezugsobjekt, ohne

See: without a referent aim

referent object

Bezugsobjekt der Bezeichnung

The validly knowable phenomena that the names and concepts for them, imputed on a basis for labeling, refer to.

Tib: btags-chos

referent thing

Dinge, auf die sich etwas bezieht / Bezugs-Ding

The actual "thing" referred to by a name or concept, corresponding to the names or concepts for something, and which is findable, establishing its own existence by its own power, on the side of the referent object of the name or concept. In Gelug, according to Prasangika it is nonexistent and according to lower tenet systems it is existent.

Tib: btags-don

reflection

Spiegelung

See: mental derivative

reflection, mental

Spiegelung, geistige / Wiederspiegelung, geistige

See: mental derivative

reflexive

reflexiv

Turned in on itself.

reflexive appearance

reflexive Erscheinung

An appearance of a cognitive object that arises automatically from a person's clear light mind itself. Such an appearance may be either impure (with an appearance of truly established existence) or pure (without such an appearance).

Tib: rang-snang

reflexive awareness

reflexives Gewahrsein

(1) The cognitive faculty within a cognition, asserted in the Sautrantika and Chittamatra tenet systems, that takes as its cognitive object the consciousness within the cognition that it is part of. It also cognizes the validity or invalidity of the cognition that it is part of, and accounts for the ability to recall the cognition. (2) In the non-Gelug schools, this cognitive faculty becomes reflexive deep awareness -- that part of an arya's nonconceptual cognition of voidness that cognizes the two truths of that nonconceptual cognition.

Tib: rang-rig

reflexive deep awareness

reflexives tiefes Gewahrsein

(1) In Kagyu and Sakya, that aspect of an arya's nonconceptual cognition of voidness that cognizes its own two-truth nature. (2) In Nyingma, that aspect of pure awareness (rigpa) that cognizes its own two truths or its own threefold nature. Synonymous with self-arising deep awareness.

Tib: rang-rig ye-shes

refuge

Zuflucht/ Zufluchtnahme

See: safe direction

refuge, take

Zuflucht nehmen

See: take safe direction

refuge preceptor

Zufluchts-Präzeptor / die Zufluchten gebende Präzeptor

A spiritual mentor who has kept one of the sets of pratimoksha vows purely for a certain number of years and in whose presence spiritual seekers formally take refuge (put a safe direction in their lives), thus committing themselves to the Buddhist path.

refutation

Widerlegung

See: negation phenomenon

regard

Beachtung

See: firm conviction

regret

Reue / Bedauern

The subsidiary awareness (mental factor) of not wishing to repeat doing something, either proper or improper, that one did or that someone else made one do.

Tib: 'gyod-pa

relating to a spiritual mentor in a healthy manner

zu einem spirituellen Mentor eine gesunde Beziehung aufbauen

Entrusting oneself, through mind and actions, to a fully qualified spiritual mentor. Also called: relying on a spiritual mentor, entrusting oneself to a spiritual mentor, whole-hearted commitment to a spiritual mentor. Often translated as: guru-devotion.

Tib: bshes-gnyen bsten-pa

relative bodhichitta

relatives Bodhichitta

See: conventional bodhichitta

relative true phenomenon

relativ wahres Phänomen

See: superficial true phenomenon

relative truth

relative Wahrheit

See: superficial truth

release itself in its own place

in seinen eigenen Ort hinein auflösen

See: automatically releases itself in its own place

reliance

Stütze

See: something that supports something else

reliquary monument

Reliquien-Monument

See: stupa

remembering kindness

Güte erinnern

Remembering the kindness of motherly love, remembering all the beneficial things that all beings have shown us when they were our mothers. The second of the six part cause and effect quintessence teaching for developing bodhichitta.

Tib: drin-dran

renunciation

Entsagung

(1) The definite determination to be free of samsara and to gain liberation, and with which one is willing to give up true suffering and true causes. Also translated as "determination to be free." (2) In Theravada, the mental factor to give up all attachment to worldly possessions, social status, and even one's body. When conjoined with a bodhichitta aim, it becomes a far-reaching attitude.

Tib: nges-'byungSkt: naishkramya

renunciation, short-lived all-excited

Entsagung, kurzlebige, hocherregte

See: short-lived all-excited renunciation

repaying kindness

Güte zurückgeben

Appreciating the beneficial things that all beings have shown us when they were our mothers and wishing to benefit them in return. The third of the seven part cause and effect quintessence teaching for developing bodhichitta.

Tib: drin-gso

representation, mental

Darstellung, geistige / Repräsentation, geistige

See: mental representation

repudiation

Zurückweisung / Nichtanerkennen

A conceptual denial of something that is true or is present.

Tib: skur-'debs

resolution

Entschlossenheit / Entschlusskraft

One of the ten far-reaching attitudes in the Theravada tradition. An attitude of determination with which a bodhisattva never abandons what he or she needs to do in order to benefit others.

The influencing nature of pure awareness (rigpa) - namely, that it responds to others effortlessly and spontaneously with compassionate communication. See: responsive awareness.

Tib: thugs-rje

result, commanding

beherrschende Wirkung

See: dominating result

result, comprehensive

umfassende Wirkung

See: dominating result

result, dominating

beherrschende Wirkung

See: dominating result

result, man-made

Wirkung, die durch Menschenhand hervorgebracht worden ist

See: man-made result

result, overlord

beherrschende Wirkung

See: dominating result

result, overriding.

beherrschende Wirkung

See: dominating result

result, ripened

Wirkung, gereiftes

See: ripened result

resultant level

Wirkungsebene

In the context of basis, pathway, and resultant levels of something being specified, the level of something, for instance Buddha-nature, in the state of a Buddha when it is fully purified.

Tib: 'bras-bu

resultant links of what has been thrown

aus dem Geworfenen entstandene Glieder

In the twelve links of dependent arising, the three and a half links of resultant loaded consciousness, nameable mental faculties with or without gross form, stimulators of cognition, and contacting awareness, which occur during the development of an embryo in the womb in the life that is thrown by the activated karmic aftermath of throwing karma.

Tib: 'phangs-pa'i 'bras-bu'i yan-lag

resultant links of what is actualized

Glieder, die sich aus dem Realisierten ergeben

In the twelve links of dependent arising, the two links of conception and aging and dying in a future rebirth thrown by the activated karmic aftermath of throwing karma.

Tib: mngon-par grub-pa'i 'bras-bu'i yan-lag

resultant taking of safe direction

resultierendes Einschlagen der sicheren Richtung

A taking of safe direction (refuge) that takes as its sources of safe direction the Triple Gem that one will attain oneself in the future, based on actualizing one's own Buddha-nature. Synonymous with "special taking of safe direction."

Tib: 'bras-bu'i skyabs-'gro

result that corresponds to its cause

Wirkung, die der Ursache entspricht

A result that in some way resembles its cause, either in the wish to repeat its causal action or in the experience of something happening back to one that resembles what one did.

Tib: rgyu-mthun-gyi 'bras-buSkt: nishyandaphalam

result that corresponds to its cause in one's behavior

Wirkung, die der Ursache im eigenen Verhalten ähnelt

The subsidiary awareness (mental factor) of liking or wishing to do an action, in a particular moment, similar to what one has done in the past. Also translated as "result that is similar to its cause in one's behavior" and "result that is similar to its cause in one's instinctive behavior."

Tib: byed-pa rgyu-mthun-gyi 'bras-bu

result that corresponds to its cause in one's experience

Wirkung, die der Ursache in der eigenen Erfahrung ähnelt

The experience of a situation in which something similar to one's previous action happens back to oneself. Also translated as "result that is similar to its cause on one's experience."

A form of physical phenomenon, asserted in the Vaibhashika and Gelug Prasangika schools, that shows (reveals) the motivation behind it, and which may be a constructive, destructive or unspecified phenomenon. Examples are the shape of one's body when performing an action, the sound of the words when one speaks, the expression on someone's face, and so on. In general, such a phenomenon may be either one of the five sensory objects or one of the five sensory cognitive sensors.

Tib: rnam-par rig-byed-kyi gzugsSkt: vijnaptirupa

revelatory accounts

enthüllende Berichte

One of the twelve scriptural categories. (1) Buddha's revelations of what has happened in the past or prophesies of what will occur in the future. (2) According to some explanations, scriptures of definitive meaning.

Tib: lung-bstan-paSkt: vyakarana

riddance

Aufgeben

A static state in which an emotional obscuration or a cognitive obscuration has been removed forever from a mental continuum. Equivalent to a true stopping (true cessation). Translated by others as "abandonment."

Tib: spong-baSkt: hani

rigpa

Rigpa

See: pure awareness

rigpa, appearance-making basis rigpa

Erscheinungs-hervorbringendes grundlegendes Rigpa

See: appearance-making basis rigpa

rigpa, basis

Rigpa, grundlegendes

See: basis rigpa

rigpa, effulgent

Rigpa, strahlendes

See: effulgent rigpa

rigpa, essence

Rigpa, Essenz-

See: essence rigpa

rigpa of all-embracing spontaneous presence

Rigpa der all-umfassenden spontanen Präsenz

Pure awareness (rigpa) from the point of view of its resultant level as the Dharmakaya of a Buddha.

Tib: lhun-grub sbubs-kyi rig-pa

ripen

reifen / heranreifen

(1) A karmic cause developing or growing to the point at which it can bear fruit, which means produce its result. This is ripening in its definitional sense. (2) A karmic causal factor on a mental continuum exhausting and finishing its presence there as it produces its fruit.

Tib: smin-paSkt: vipaka

ripened result

gereifte Wirkung

A nonobstructive unspecified item conjoined with the mental continuum of a limited being, such as the body, consciousness, and feelings of happiness and unhappiness, and which comes from a ripening cause that was also conjoined with his or her mental continuum.

Tib: rnam-smin-gyi 'bras-buSkt: vipakaphalam

ripening

das Heranreifen

The process whereby a karmic cause gives rise to its result. See: ripen.

Tib: smin-paSkt: vipaka

ripening cause

reifende Ursache

A destructive or tainted constructive phenomenon that, unless one has rid one's mental continuum forever of craving, has the power to produce the nonobstructive unspecified items contained in the five aggregate factors of future rebirth states, such as the body, the types of consciousness, and the feelings.

Tib: rnam-smin-gyi rgyuSkt: vipakahetu

ritual, expiation

Ritual, Sühne-

See: expiation ritual

ritual bountiful feast

rituelles freigebiges Festmahl

A specially consecrated torma offered to one's tantric master, inseparable from the Buddha-figure, during a tantra ceremonial round of offering.

Tib: tshogs

ritual ceremony

Ritualzeremonie

Also called puja. See: offering ritual.

ritual trainer

Ritualtrainer

A teacher who instructs one in how to perform Buddhist rituals.

root bodhisattva vows

Wurzelgelübde des Bodhisattva

The eighteen primary bodhisattva vows which, if kept purely, act as a root for attaining enlightenment, and which, if fully transgressed, act as a root for rebirth in one of the worse rebirth states.

root downfall

Übertretung der Wurzelgelübde

A transgression of a root bodhisattva or root tantric vow, which, if it is a full transgression, acts as a root for falling to rebirth in one of the worse rebirth states.

Tib: rtsa-ltung

root downfall, Kalachakra tantra

Übertretung der tantrischen Wurzelgelübde des Kalachakra

See: Kalachakra tantra root downfall

root guru

Wurzelguru

The spiritual teacher that inspires one the most, such that his or her inspiration serves as the root giving sustenance to one's spiritual growth.

Tib: rtsa-ba'i bla-ma

roots of constructive force

Wurzeln konstruktiver Kraft

See: roots of positive force

Tib: dge-rtsa

roots of positive force

Wurzel positiver Kräfte

The network of positive force (collection of merit), described from the point of view of it serving as the "root" for one to grow into a Buddha.

Tib: dge-ba'i rtsa-ba

roots of virtue

Wurzeln der Tugend

See: roots of positive force

root tantric vows

Wurzelgelübde des Tantra

The fourteen primary tantric vows which, if kept purely, act as a root for attaining enlightenment, and which, if fully transgressed, act as a root for rebirth in one of the worse rebirth states.